Sandy Hetherington

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Dr Alexander J. Hetherington | Plant evolutionary biologist, University of Edinburgh UK | UKRI Future Leader Fellow | Lab website: https://www.ed.ac.uk/biology/groups/hetherington

Sandy Hetherington standing in a bookshop holding a book titled atlas of botany with red flowers on the cover
Tea Reinert, wearing a viva hat in the shape of a witches hat and Sandy Hetherington holding a glass of fizz.
Andrew Hudson, Sannie Fu, Jacob Suissa and Sandy Hetherington standing in a row. Sannie is wearing a hat in the style of a mortar board that says congratulations Sannie.
Saskia Hogenhout standing in a seminar room
Paul Kenrick, Laura Cooper and Sean McMahon
Reconstruction of Prototaxites in the Rhynie chert ecosystem. Reconstruction by Matt Humpage, Northern Rouge Studios.
Book front cover with illustrations of fern leaves and the title: Ferns, lessons in survival from Earth’s most adaptable plants Written by: Fat-Wei Li and Jacob S. Suissa Illustrated by Laura Silburn
Left, a zoomed out image of the habit of the green branching lycophytes Oxroadia. Right, a zoomed in image of the highly branched rooting system
David standing by large projector screen with images of Isoetes plants
Page 11 of the Sunday Post. With story 'Fossil find is modern-day Jurassic spark'. The title image is of dinosaurs and below is an image of fossil wood, and a photograph of Anajú Sagasti and Sandy Hetherington
Microscope image of fossil wood under the microscope with fossil rootlets and decaying wood evident
Rocky coastline on sunny day with blue skye
Small tree growing on rotting wood - termed a nurse log
Group of 9 people standing on a red bridge in Royal Botanic Gardens Edinburgh
Green fern leaf with pinnules on one side and small bead-like sori on the other
Sandy, Jeremy and Rafael standing by a blue sign that says Daniel Rutherford Building, Institute of Molecular Plant Sciences
Noel standing by large screen with first title of the seminar on the screen. Text on screen reads: Weaving growth: tissue connectivity in plant postembryonic organ development
Selfie of two people by fossil tree trunk
SEM image of two Selaginella shoot apices
Green branching shoots of Selaginella apoda
Green leafy stem of Selaginella
A microscope images of brown spiral of fossil plant leaves